South Korea's world share of science and social-science papers over a
recent five-year period, expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 21
fields in the
Clarivate Analytics database. Also, South Korea's relative citation
impact compared to the world average in each field, in percentage terms.

Field

Percentage of papers
from S. Korea

Relative impact
compared to world

Materials Science

5.94

+2

Computer Science

5.84

-29

Physics

4.75

-13

Engineering

4.51

-23

Pharmacology

4.20

-38

Chemistry

2.97

-7

Microbiology

2.73

-39

South Korea's overall percent share, all fields:
2.58

Agricultural Sciences

2.48

-6

Biology & Biochemistry

2.25

-31

Mathematics

2.04

-15

Ecology/Environmental

1.73

-35

Clinical Medicine

1.68

-36

Immunology

1.56

-45

Neurosciences & Behavior

1.55

-35

Economics & Business

1.54

-35

Molecular Biology & Genetics

1.51

-38

Plant & Animal Sciences

1.47

-6

Space Science

1.27

-21

Geosciences

1.18

-15

Social Sciences

0.73

-36

Psychology/Psychiatry

0.51

-39

Between 2003 and 2007, Clarivate Analytics indexed 109,797 papers that listed
at least one author address in South Korea. Of those papers, the highest
percentage appeared in journals indexed in the category of materials
science. As the right-hand column indicates, the impact of South Korean
papers in materials science exceeded the world average by 2% during the
five-year period (2.94 citations per paper for South Korea versus the world
mark of 2.88). The nation's relative-impact performance was also
comparatively strong in agricultural sciences, at 94% of the world mark, or
just 6% below, with the same score in plant & animal sciences, and a
similar posting in chemistry (93% of the world average).